Motivating broiler chickens to move using specially designed lasers can boost animal welfare, according to new research. Research from Iowa State University shows periodically projecting randomly…
Month: December 2022
Ahead of its launch in January, Defra has published guidance for the third round of the Farming Futures Research and Development Fund competition focussing on agriculture and…
MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have called for “fundamentally unfair” rules on farmers’ compensation for bird flu to be changed. The UK…
Moy Park, together with a consortium of UK manufacturers from other sectors, has secured £4m in match funding to research what it called “sustainable smart factory…
British Poultry Council chair, Graeme Dear, the farming minister Mark Spencer, and shadow farming Minister, Daniel Zeichner MP were joined by UK poultry farmers, producers and…
Global airline catering business gategroup has committed to switching all the shell eggs, liquid eggs and other egg products to suppliers that use cage-free systems, either…
Noble Foods has appointed Richard Wood to head up its poultry business. Wood joined Noble Foods following a near 30-year career in the sector, with category…
The Government must introduce better policies to support farmers, or risk more empty shelves in the supermarkets, the NFU has warned. The egg shortages of the…
Breeding company Aviagen is now shipping chicks internationally from Copenhagen airport, in a move that will increase the number of trade routes. On 24 November, the…
Assessments of Red Tractor poultry scheme members are to increase from every 12 months to every nine months, starting next March. This change to the poultry…